The Sun. — London, England, 1864-10-10 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 10, 1864. How to expend the greatest amount of public money with the least possible result is the problem which our Board of Admiralty appears to have set itself to solve. They have often succeeded in coming very near a result, but their last achievement really out does themselves. The public have grown so accustomed to their maladministration and extra vagance that they have almost ceased to wonder and exclaim, but the case in qusstioa is so flagrant that it has aroused the attention even of those who look on all Admiralty proceedings with cinet despair. Great interest has been excited by the trial of Captain COLES'S much-talked-of system of turret ships, and it was a source of general satisfaction when it was first decided at headquarters that his method should be submitted to the fair test of prate thee! experiment. It was many a long year before this concession was wade, but the decision when come to was generally applauded, for without in any way committing ourselves to unconditional approval of the system, we must say that Captain COLF.a'S perseverance and ability, the skill with which he supported his views before competent examiners, and the favour with which they have been received in•scientific and professional circles, alike entitle his m )del turret ship to a fair trial. This point, however, was gained, and the Admiralty, following their favourite plan of cutting down and altering whenever it is possible to find an excuse for doing so, directed that Captain COLES should convert the Royal Sovereign, a vastly wooden three decker, into a turret-ship on his system. And now, what is the end of the story ? The ship is completed, equipped, manned, and put under the command of a very able officer, Captain OSBORNE, and all who are interested in such matters are watching with anxiety the results of her winter campaign. The trial trips have been as yet satis factory, and her commander has expressed himself well pleased with what he has seen of her. All is ready for the promised fair trial, when the public is startled by the intelligence that the skip is paid out of commission and placed in the steam reserve —when and in what form to be allowed to re appear, may be esked. Such a proceeding is outs regeous alike to common sense and justice. It is undoubtedly due to Captain COLES and his sup porters that the ship should be sent fairly to sea and allowed to prove her sea-going capacities. That is the very point on which he especially claims prece dence for his system over the famous American Monitors, which, however formidable at close quar ters, have been proved to have the serious draws back of being generally unseaworthy. A ship may be in the mysterious list of the steam reserve for fifty years without anyone knowing how she would bahave in rough weather at sea ; and thus Captain Coms's invention is pronounced to have failed, qaietly huddled out of sight with the hope, per h ipe, that it will drop out of public remembrance. Bat the public feel that they have b!en ill-used no less than Captain COLES, Why, if the experiment was not worth trying fully and fairly, was a veesel that cost a hundred thousand pounds to be secrificed to it, and the public money wasted in an experiment which was never intended to be carried cut? Why, if there really were grounds, as there undoubtedly were, in the present transition state of naval architecture, for testing how much Captain COLES's pl an was worth, should the work atop half way ? Why should men and officers who have learned how to work this particular ship be paid off, end' their knowledge turn , , , d to no account ? Why are we to go on building iron plated ships on the ordinary plan, when all the tima the turret ships, for what we know, m ayprove far superior as vessels of war ? We cannot see that the Admi ralty excuses for the proceeding are at all satisfac tory. It is gravely asserted that the Royal Sove reign was never intended for a se a- going chip at all, bat merely as a fl sating battery for harbour defenc e , eapable of being sent to any part of the Channel, but not adapted to cruise with a squadron—that her want of masts and the lowness of her decks disqualify her for a seagoing ship, and to try her with the ships of the Channel, would be of no practical use. She was sent to Portland, we are told to try her turrets and guns; and that since an accident necessitated her going into a dockyard, Captain OSBORNE sent up a list of alterations that were requisite, when it was thought no advantage would be gained by keeping the ship in commission daring the winter, so in one of our Admiralty's periodical fits of economy officers and men were for the most part paid off, and the grand new experi ment, the Royal Sovereign, transformed into a tender to the Excellent. There are several points in this explanation which require explanation them selves. The R )yal Sovereign, we are told, was never in her new form intended for a sea-going ship. But :she certainly was intended for a sea - going ship when first built at an outlay of a hundred thousand pounds, and if Captain COLES was to do no more than build a floating battery he might, one would think, have been allowed to construct it for himself without spoiling a ship of the calibre of the Royal Sovereign. Bat it was generally understood that the Royal Sovereign was to be a seagoing ship, and unless Captain COLES has been very much misrepresented that is certainly the impression he intended to con vey. There is no great miracle in constructing an effective floating battery " capable of being sent to any port in the Channel, bat not adapted to cruise with a squadron." A good many professional men • could, no doubt, design such a one without devoting ten years to perfecting and publishing it. The very merit of Captain COLES'S scheme is its professed superiority to the American method, which makes the ships unsea worthy; and if his real endeavour is to be no more than a floating battery, it is decidedly inferior to monitors, which have contrived to go to sea. As for the assertion that the absence of masts and the low decks of the Royal Sovereign disqualify her for sea-going purposes, that is virtually deciding against all turret ships, for the low decks are one of their distinctive features. To say that it would be useless to grant the ship a trial is to pre-judge the case. It would have been fairer to the inventor and to the public to say it was useless to make the experiment at all. When the affair first begun, it was certainly given out that the Royal Sovereign was to be a fair test of Captain COLES'S method, and as such the public accepted it. The "floating battery" is only, we believe, a convenient excuse, for nobody doubted that Captain COLES could con struct a floating battery. We should like to hear what he has to say on the subject ? We should imagine he feels considerable indignation as well as disappointment at the issue of this much talked of trial, which has really been no trial at all. There is one thing certain. - When Parliament meets we shall hear something more about this "floating battery," and we shall hope that one practical result of the affair will be the application of the Admi ralty's favourite principle of conversion and al teration to their own Board, which needs a thorough remodelling before it fa:fils the require• ments of the public service. News received from New York up to the Ist of O ;tober, still leaves the actual condition of affairs uncertain. Bat all that we gather from the vague and hesitating details of the grand encounter between SHERIDAN and EARLY, seems to confirm our original impression that the Federal success had been greatly exaggerated in the first instance. the Americans claim to make war on a new scale, and certainly not only in the gigantic extent of their undertakings, but in the eccentricity of their results they have reversed the whole system of old world military tactics. We, of the old school, should not thick very much of a triumph where the victor cannot keep his communications with his own Government open and from which the vanquished retreats in safety with the whole of his trains and stores. Yet such appears to have been the case at Winchester, and it is very certain that the discrepancy between the losses on the two sides cannot have been fairly stated, since SHERIDAN has not thought fit to push on his ad vantage. When the Confederates state their losses at 2,500 killed, wounded, and missing, and the North will not calculate theirs, the case looks bad for the Federals, and the capture of SHERIDAN'S couriers by Confederate cavalry in his rear makes the matter worse. It is true that the Federal Government may find it just now very convenient to receive no despatches direct from the seat of war, but the people cannot be deceived for long. Mean while in Missouri and Alabama the Confederate star is again the ascendant. General PRICE has entered Missouri with his whole army; he is within 60 miles of the capital of St. Louis, where business is sus pended, and the citizens are arming themselves, in answer to an appeal from the Federal com mander, General ROSENCRANS. The real sympa thies of the West are mainly with the South, and if the Confederates hold St. Louis it will be an important step gained. In Alabama, again, General FORREST has advanced successfully ; and it was anticipated he would cut off SHERMAN'S communi cations with Nashville. These two simultaneous movements in the West are full of importance, but the PRESIDENT and his associates will take care that as little as possible is known until the great political contest is concluded. It is a stormy pic ture, at best, and the real lovers of their country, whether North or South, may well look with a heavy heart on the widespread and continuous devastation. It is always to be regretted when those who at tempt to administer justice fail in some of its chiel requisites, for the harm that such mistakes occasions is always incalculable. One of the most glaring cases of undue severity 'that has been made public for some time is recorded as taking place in Kent. A poor boy of fourteen years of age was brought be fore General iIITCIIENE3, charged with the trifling offence of having knocked down six walnuts from a tree in a field. Surely, it was hardly worth whil e to have brought up the youth on such a charge at all, but the most that was awarded to him should have been a reprimand or a fine. We are not t old that the boy had been seen before to commit such an offence, and his own version of the affair might well have condoned his error in the sight of any one less austere than his judge. He said that he had been disappointed at his ill success when out nutting, and that he was tempted by the appearance of these walnuts in question. He therefore threw stone and took up six that fell. It seems almost incredible thlt, upon hearing such an Recount, General HIV:HEINS should have passed such a sentence as that which followed. The poor boy was condemned to Maidstone prison, with hard labour, for six months. The option of a fine was not allowed. Can anything be more monstrous than such a sentence P It is virtually ruining the boy for life, and taking away his chance of earning an honest livelihood, because Le has done as hundreds do every day, and helped himself to a trifle. It is not as if he had entered a house and taken a email portion of property ; that would have been a very different affair, and ought to have been de.;lt with rigorously by way of prevention. The punishment of six months' imprisonment with hard labour is dealt out to many who have committed assaults on others, and half killed them perhaps, and such an award is deemed sufficient, yet this poor boy is to no. dergo a like penalty b:cause he has been charged with a most trivial fault. Such things ought not to occur in the administration of justice, and it is to be hoped that some inquiry will be instituted into the circumstances of the affair. The Home Secretary should certainly turn his attention to this affair, and ascertain the grounds upon which such an extraordinary sentence could have been passed. It is a scandal to the community that such harshness should be tolerated, and it will prevent the recurrence of the like inconsistency for the future if notice is taken of this departure from jus. tier which has taken place under the mask of the law. There can be no greater mistake committed than to send those convicted of trivial offences at an early age to mix with felons, and it is a wrong thing to strain the law so that a youth should bear the stigma of imprisonment upon him at his en trance into life. Beyond these considerations it seems that in this case a direct error has been com mitted by the Magistrate himself, and for the sake of justice, which can never be tou perfectly ad ministered, some decided steps should be taken to prevent the chance of similar inconsistencies again arising to shock our sense of propriety. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE,- Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, AN APRIL FOOL. Mr. R. Roxby, M - . ti. Belmore, Mr. Fitzjames, Mr. G. Weston, and Miss Hudspeth. After which, at a quarter to Eight o'c'ock, Shaksnere's Tragedy of OTHELLO. Mr. Phelps ; tiles rs. Creswick, Walter Lacy, G. F. Neville, A Rayner, Raymond; Mrs. 13 ermann Vezin, and Miss Atkinson. Doors open at ha f-past Six—Commence at Seven. T HEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET,- Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, MADEMOISELLE DE BELLE ISLE. Messrs. Howe, Farren, Gordon, Baird, &c. Mesdames Beatrice, Ange , &c. Alter which, PRESENTED AT COURT. Messrs. Buck stane, Howe, W. Farren, Rogers, Clark, Braid, &C. ; Mes dames Snowdon, Griffith, Ili I, Wright, Lovell, &c. And SACCHUS AND ARIADNE. To commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the sole management of Mr. Fechter. This Theatre will OPEN on SATURDNY. October 22, with a New Drama, entitled the KING'S BUT TERFLY, in which Mr. Fechter will pertcrm the principal character. The scenery p-Onted by Mr. William Callcott. The Box-ollice will open on Monday, October 17, from Elevai till Four. ROY A L PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. Tiirs EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. I addy 011afferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. After which, THE bTREET3 OF LONDON. Messrs. Viring, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her. D. Murray, J. Nelson, 11. Forre , ter. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Rainy Gwynne. ..NgW THEATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHI.— e,3le Proprietor and Manauor. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, GOOD FOR NOTHING. Messrs. J. Clarke, Billing - ton, Eburne, and Mrs. Alfred Alter which, RORY O'XIORI4. Rory (with Irish Ballads) ' Mr. John Collins. Other c haracters b y Messrs. Billing-ton R. Pnillips, Paul Bedford. Stuart, Stephenson, C. J. Smith Mre. Alfred Mellon and Miss Kale Kelly. To conclude with TEUDY THE TILER. Teddy (with songs), Mr. John Collins. Commence at 7. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Manager. Mr. Benjamin Webster. EMINENI I TALENT AND COMEDY. This popular 'lheatre is Open for the Winter Season. Those Celebrated artistes Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews are re-engaged. THIS EVENING, Mr. Arthur Sketchley's highly successful and original Comedy of HOW WILL 111EY GET OUT (IF IT? Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mr. and Mrs. F. Matthews. Mr. F. Robinson, Air. H, J. Montague; Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling, Alter which, a New Comedy Farce. by Maddison Morton, Esq., entitled WoOD OCK'6 LITTLE GAME. Mr. C. Mathews, Mrs. F. Matthews. To ccnclude with UNDER THE ROSE. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanborough. TIM EVENING, JNLIMITED CONFIDENCE. Followed by, at Eight, MILKY WHITE. Messrs. Craven, Stoyle, James ; Mesdames Swanbor, ugh and Mande: s. After which, the great Burlesque, THE MILLER AND lIIS MEN. Messrs. Fenton, James, and Thorne; Mesdames ,Swanborough, Simpson. 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If anything could obliterate the notion that to ensure success managers of metropolitan theatres must of neces sity produce highly-wrought sensational dramas, the im mense audience assembled in Old Drury on Saturday evening to witness the performance of "Othello" must surely he sufficient. It proved unmistakeably that no sooner are managers to be found who will take the pains to represent with talent and taste the great Siaaksperean drama than an overflowing audience is certain to be the result, Thus the representation of the tragedy of " Othelle," with Mr Phelps as the Moor, Mr Creswick largo, Mrs Hermann Vezin Desdemona, and Miss Atkinson Etnilir., attracted an assembly as large, in fact larger, than the capacious pro portions of the largest theatre in London could accommo date. That the audience was not an unappreciative one was clear and palpable from the opening of the tragedy to its close. The hushed silence as the terrible climax approached, and the intense attention of all who watched the progress of the dreadful passion which finally overwhelms the Moor, was remarkable. The Othello of iMr Phelps has become one of his finest aad most finished performances. He has entirely cast aside all those conventional points which many of his predecessors invariably indulged in, and in place of which ho gave us a pure, original, and highly wrought portrait minutely per fect in every particular, and one that every person of taste and judgment must pi onounce to be a masterpiece of art. The first portion of the part, until the opening of the third act, was uttered with the utmost dignity and ease, the half rebuke to his followers as they draw upon the father of Desdemona, being given in the most telling manner. There was none of that conventional roar that usually ac • companies the delivery cf the lines by less talented per formers; on the contrary, the direction was given in the most natural manner, and the effect was thereby greatly heightened. The celebrated address to the Senate was beautifully declaimed ; indeed, with the exception of the great Edmund Kean, we cannot remember ever to have heard the lines delivered with more dignity and eimplicity combined. His doting love for his new-made wife was ex quisitely marked throughout, and his brimful happiness when he meets her at Cyprus, and the wars ended, and a long career of married bliss seems opened to him, was ex pressed with a gentle power that seemed to be the °vet flow ing beneficence of a mighty nature perfectly at rest. The violent emotion commences in the third act. The first outburst, vz.— " I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses," was given with terrific earnestness. Rage. tenderness, indignation, and ferocity fill up the remainder of the play until despair and remorse darken the picture to its deepest tones, and nothing is left but to throw over the agony the wide black shroud of death. In this arduous delineation Mr Phelps may have been surpassed in occasional intensity, he has never been surpassed in purity, 1. . cling, and the sustenance of uniform passionate expression. He reached the highest point of art where he stood, will his head rest ing on his bosom gaz:ng on the lifeless Desdemona, the very figure of despair. Mr Creswick's lago was a judicious and good performance, but to our taste he was a little too minute in his endeavour not to over-act the part. He seemed thoroughly to understand the character, but his version of it required a little mere villany infused in the soliloquies and a little more boisterous display in the lighter scenes to show that his hilarity was forced and counterfeit. That his lago was a careful and intelligent performance we admit to the full, but in many parts it fell short of the mark. Mr Neville was the Casein, but with the greatest respect to this young and ri,ing artist we think the character should have been placed in more abler hands. Mr. Walter Lacy's Roderigo was especially good, and the same may be said of Mr. Rayner's Brabantio. Nothing could be better than the Desdemona of Mrs. Herman Vt. zln. It was gentle, grace ful, and sweetly womanly. Her reading was elegant and tasteful, and her appearance the very beau ideal of female beauty. Miss Atkinson's Emelia is too well known and appreciated to nead the slightest remark beyond saying that it was sustained with all its fine effects. The tragedy was carefully put upon the stage, the dresses and appoint ments being all new and historically correct. Sadler's Wells. Oa Saturday night a new pie ce was produced here, under the title of " The Witchfluder." The scene cf the play is laid in Ancient Salem, in Massachussets, in 1693, at which period one Martin Holt, a religious fanatic, who be lieves he has been specially endowed by God with an infal lible gift to detect witchcraft, mercilessly puts to death all whom he so detects : hence the name of " Witchfinder." Of Miss Marriott's impersonation of the idiot boy we cannot speak too highly. The withering curse she pronounces on the witchfinder was a piece of acting that elicited, not alone tremendous applause, but a call before the curtain. The dialogue of the play is generally good and much to be commended. The piece is well put on the stage, and the scenic appointments all that could be desired. The house was crowded ; and it is to be hoped that Miss Marriott will meet with the reward her enterprise deserves in thus plac ing before the public something more than a mere sensa tional drama. MR SOTITERN IN GLASGOW.—BRILLIANT SUC CESS OF " DAVID GARRICK."—Mr Sothern has achieved a success in "David Garrick" equal, if not surpass ing, that which greeted him in his first appearance here as "Lord Dundreary." Nightly, boas, stalls, pit, in fact every part of the house, aro crowded by enthusiastic and appreciative audiences. On Wednesday night quite a furore of applause broke forth at his exit on concluding his great scene in his second act, and though Mr Sothern acknow ledged the tribute paid to his performance by appearing and bowing in response, he had a second time to come forward before the plaudits ceased. A double "call" is something almost unprecedented.— Glasgow Daily Mail, A STATUE TO ROSSINI,—A small town in the east of Italy, where RAsioi had once passed some time, conceived the idea of commemorating the great maestro's sojourn amongst them by a statue. The zeal was unhappily greater than the wealth, and after some months of unwearied toil the managing committee announced the sad fact, that although one spirited individual had of him self contributed the pedestal, which was already built and ready to receive the statue, the monied contributions only reached 1,200 f. In this dilemma they, with a courage that all must commend, waited on the illustrious composer, and asked him in what way he would himself advise this sum to be appropriated. " You want a statue," said ho thoughtfully ; "and you have, it seems, only got as far as the pedestal." " Yes, Illustrissitno, that is cur case." "And you have 1,200 f besides too, ards Jour object ?" The committee bowed their acquiescence. " GiYO me the money then, and I'll stand on the pedestal half an hour next Tuesday. I must leave on We Inesday, or I'd repeat the performance."—.Blackwood. ATTP MPTED ►SUICIDE—Captain Magoffin, late a captain in the Confederate army, and now a paroled prisoner of war, was brought before the Liverpool magis trates on Friday, under remand, charged with attempting to destroy himself by taking cpium. He had married during a freak, a Liverpool courtesan, and when he came to himself he was so horror-stricken and miserable that he attempted to destroy his life. He was remanded, in order that the chaplain of the gaol might have an opportunity of speaking to him. It was stated that the prisoner's friends had obtained a free passage for him to Glasgow, where he would be taken care of by his friends. Upon this assur ance he was released.with a caution, and some good advice cm the part of the bench. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] THE FRANCO-ITALIAN CONVENTION. PARIS, OCT. 10. The Constitutionne/ of this morning, in an article signed by M. Limayrac, opposes the views of ea parties who see in this Convention the fall of the temporal power and the abandomreat of Rome. " This Convention,'' says M. Limayrac, " will be executed in letter and spirit. Thinking otherwise, the ultra-Italian press grievously imu't the King of Italy, as do the clerical press the Pops." THE DUCHIES. BERLIN, Ocr. 10. Letters received here from Kiel say that Messrs. Samwer and Francke, the present advisers of the Duke of Augustenburg, have heard the rumour of their approaching dismissal solely from the news papers by whom this report has been spread. M. Samwer is en leave for several days, after which ho will resume his functions at Kiel. M. Francke is still in that town performing the official duties of his position, which he has not the slightest cause to resign. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, OCT. 10. The Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia have abandoned their intention of visiting Nice. Their royal highnesses will proceed to Switzerland and will have returned to Berlin by the 22d December next. Herr von Bismarck is expected to arrive in this capital from France on the 28 . h icst. Baron Budberg arrived here yesterday evening, and proceeds to-morrow to joie the Emperor of Russia. F RANCE. M. Adorn, Councillor of Logation, has arrived in Paris to resume his functions as first secretary of the Italian Embassy. Considered one of the most rising diplomatists of Italy, he was called to Turin on the accession of the Minghetti Cabinet to fill the post of Chef de Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign AffAire. M. Albert Blanc, who was pri vate secretary to M. Visconti-Venosta, has been appointed Chef de Cabinet of General de Lamar. mora. This gentleman had distinguished himself in Fretch literature before he entered on Italian diplomatic life. The Imperial exegaatur has been granted in the following cases ;— Consul General—M. Thirion, for Schaumburg-Lippe, at Paris. Consuls—M, Kre. linger, for Belgium, at Havre; M. Alvarez, for Peru, at Bordeaux; M. Garcia de Isla, for Nicar agua, at Bayonne; M. Gauthier, for the Argentine Republic at Cette ; M. Popoff, for Russia, at Havre, Rouen, and adjacent ports; M. Bardot, for Bremen, at Nantes. Vice-Consuls—M. Braceschi, for Italy, at La Calle ; Count Gori Savani, for Italy, at Port de-Boue ; M. Derot, for Italy, at Calais; M. Ker roe, for Spain, at Brest; and M. Wagner, for Prussia, at Hodieur. The Moniteur publishes an Imprial decree making the following diplomatic appointments : Baron de Talleyrand-Perigord, ambassador in Prussia, to go to St. Petersburg in the same capa city; M. Benedetti, minister plenipotentiary of the first class, to be ambassador in Prussia ; M. Mercier, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the United States of America, to be ambassador at Madrid; Ccuit de Reculot, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in Portugal, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the Germanic Diet, and minister plenipotentiary to the free city of Frankfort ; M. Boole minister plenipotentiary in Gre'.'ce, to be envoy txtraor dinarj and minister pleniptentie.ry in Portugal; M. de Gobineau, minister plenipotentiary in Persia, to go to Greece in the same capacity; the Marquis de Chateaurenard, minister plenipotentiary in Hesse, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the United States of America; Count de Massignac, secretary of the first-class, to be minister plenipotentiary in Persia ; Count de Bondy, secretary of the first-class, to be minister plenipotentiary in Hesse. To be secretaries of the first-class—M. Lefebvre de Behaine and M. Armand, precis-writers in the department of Foreign Affairs, in the place of Count Massignac and Count de Bondy. Count de Chasseloup.Lanbat, who, as stated, is now at Brest, has visited, in company with Vice- Admiral Gueydon, the school for mechaniciaus on board the Vulcain ; the school line of battle ship Breda, the gunnery ship Louis XIV., the Inflexible, on board of which 800 boys are assembled, and the Ville de Lyon, also a school ship for naval appren tices. The Minister has also inspected in detail the arsenal, the different docks, the workyards, BOURSE, Oct. B.—The retrograde movement still continues. Threes, for the Account declined at the opening to 65f. 45c., but have since slightly rallied, and are now at 85f. 50e. Mobi:ier have receded to 025 f. iilway Shares have been also offered, and prices show a further fall. The market con tinued heavy to the close, 11 per Cents. . . 92 40 , and left off as follows : Italian Loan C6 3 1 Do. end month 66 45 Ditto Threes .. New Mexican .... if/ Russian Austrian .. Bl Spani,h Threes — Dome Debt Deferred 10. eR naont. 3 per Cents Do. end month 65 40 Credit 920 Do. end month.... 915 Bank Shares 3390 Credit 1 oncier llBO Roman BAIL Orloanti• • **** •. • . Northern .... Lyons and lt - leditorranean Southern Western Eastern San, inian Austrian Low bard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona AY% Cash. Account. 830 .. 835 075 982 50 900 .. 903 75 605 612 50 497 60 "- 491 25 .. 492 50 315 430 —43 G 510 513 75 380 385 470 472 50 .;.••• •••• •••• -- • • POLAND. The Moscow Gazette publishes the eighth list of persons brought before the military tritunale and condemned, within the limits of the general governs ment of Kiew, for having taken part in the Polish insurrection. This series contains the names of 343 persons whose sentences have been confirmed by General Annenkoff. The Invalide Busse also con tains a list of 19 condemnations pronounced by a military commission sitting at Niemirow, in Pocolia, and confirmed by General Annenkoff, against Poles accusad of having taken part in the late insurrection. THE SCORPION.—The Academy o f Sciences has received a viper from Dr Guyon on the mortal effects of the African scorpion's sting. Its scientific name (Androctonus funestus) indeed expresses that it is fatal to man, and yet Dr Guyon states that perhaps out of 100 per sons stung there is scarcely one that dies of it. The ancients, who under the name of scorpion certainly mean the same insect, since it is found represented on Egyptian monuments and even engraved on precious stones, had a much stronger opinion of its deadly effects. Lucan, in his " Pharsali,t," B. IX., says, " Who would believe, on seeing the scorpion, that it has the power of canting such a sudden death ?" Leo Africanus states that the houses of Biskra are infested wiih scorpions, whi c h are so venomou s that death ensues imme diately after the sti ng . Abd-Allatif, an Arabian physician end traveller, say s , "At Koos abund ance of scor p ions aro found, whose sti ng i s f requent l y mo rtal." Dr Guyon knows of eight cases in which the sting of the African scorpion was followed by death ; three of the sufferers were men, two were women, and three children, Two of the latter cases of a boy occurred in 1856, n ear L aghoua t , i n Algeria. One was that nine years old, w h o wa s stung on the f orefinger of the left hand by on the violenta scorpion, which was seen and crushed on the spot. This occurred at 8 o'clock a m., and before noon ii t : l: a e swelling ex tendedfollowing day the patient died. The sting had caused pain increasing considerably, i The n swelling was as vomitedgreat measure to the arm. The boy had cried a long time, and then owing to the ligature which the Arabs always effect above the wound in such cases. The other case was nearly similar. Dr. Guyon states that children arc more liable to die front the effects of the sting than adults, and that a.neng the latter those who are stung somewhere on the head are most likely to die of it. AMERICA. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) (Per the Arabia.) NEW YORK, Sept. 27 (Evening). Sheridan on Saturday was six miles south of Newmarket, and, in despatches foccs arded on that day, reports that ho had driven the enemy from Mount Jackson without bringing on an engages ment. The enemy were rapidly retreating. Sheri dan captured 20 guns and 1,100 prisoners at Fisher's Hill. Richmond papers admit the defeat in the first day's fighting in the Shenandoah Valley, and esti mate the Confederate lo : , s at 2,500 men, and that of the Federals at 6,000 men. Generals Rodes and Godwin are killed, and Fitz hugh Lee and York wounded. Sherman reports Hood to be moving towards the Alabama line. Forrest, with 8,00) men an 10 guns, is operating in Sherman's rear. He captured Athens with the garrison, and destroyed the rail.. road between Decatur and Athens. Forrest is moving to capture Pulaski, Franklin, and Shelby ville, and the intermediate blockhouses. Rousseau has taken tile field against Forrest. Southern papers state that General Beauregard had received the command of the Confederate armies in Georgia. D Avis is at Mc.con. Price has entered Missouri with 30,000 men, and it is supposed that ho will march into a central part of the Stee. A large force under Generals li'rby Smith and Shelby co-operate with him. The Fe derals evacuated Pilotknob, and retreated to Mine ral Point. Price advanced 20 miles to the north east of Pilotknob. General Rosencrans issued an appeal calling the people to arms. Business at St. Louis was suspended, and prepa rations were being made for the defence of the city. A doubtful report from Cairo states that Mobile had been captured. It is reported from Lulsville that the governor of Georgia had tendered Sherman propositions of peace, and that the latter had sent commissioners to confer with the Georgian State authorities. The Confederates have enrolled all males between 16 and 50. The reported occupation of Brownsvil'e by Cor tinas is unfounthd. New Orleans advices assert that Cortinas re pulsed the French in an attack upon Matamoras on the 14th. The City of Baltimore has arrived out. NEW YORK, Sept. 29 (Evening). Grant reports that Ord's Corps advanced this morning, and carried the strong fortifications of Caapin's farm, capturing 15 guns and 200 pri soners. Ord was wounded. General Birney ad vanced simultaneously from Deep BJttom, and carried the Newmarket-road and entrenchments, scattering the enemy and taking a few prisoners. Birney is now marching towards Richmond, and has arrived at Junction-hill. The Newmarket and Richmond roads, and the whole country, are full of field fortifications. There has been no direct communication with Sheridan for several days. Guerillas have captured his couriers. Southern papers state that Sheridan's cavalry is at Staunton and Waynesboro'. Forrest has de-- stroyed Sulphur Springs. Trestle has occupied Elkhorn Bridge, and captured two trains on the Chattanooga Railroad. He has now moved ofl towards Fayetteville. Rousseau is returning to Nashville. Price has captured Potosi, Missouri. The com munication with the Federal garrison at Pilotknob is cut off. 12,000 Missouri militia are under arms. Secretary Stanton urges the people to encourage enlistment, to enable Sherman to hold Atlanta and advance still farther. A mass meeting in favour of Lincoln was held at New York. The Nova Scotian has arrived out. NEW YORK, Oct. 1 (Afternoon). Grant reports that Warren yesterday carried the enemy's lino on the right, and was following up his success,. General Meade has moved from the left, and carried the enemy's lines near Poplar Grove. Butler has repulsed an attack on his line. Tne operatioLs on the north side of tte James River are successful. The royal mail steamship Arabia arrived at. Queenstown at 6 tl.lll. this day (9th inst.) with 56 passengers and 18,280 dole, in specie. She landed 84 sacks of mails and four passengers, and pro ceeded at 6.15 a.m. ; all well. The Arabia was de tained 15 hours off Halifax. (Per the S. Andrew via Greencastle.) NEW YORK, Sept. 24 (Evening). On Thursday night Sheridan continued the pur suit of General Ear y as far as "Woodstock, where he halted to rest. Sheridan reports that he thinks there never was an army so badly routed as is that of General Early. Threo thousand Confederate prisoners have arrived at Wincbestcr. The City of MaLchester and the America takeb out 570,000 dole. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Sept. 24 (Evening). Money tighter. Gold, 2032. Stocks depressed. The fall in both gold and stocks continues. Ness York Centrals, 1181 ; Illinois, 1212 ; Erie, 100; United States 520 dols. Bonds, 1092. Middling Upland cotton, 140. Flour, corn, wad provisions heavy. Wheat declining. Molasses dull. Crude petroleum, 42; refined do., 71. Confederate accounts of the battle near Winches ter on the 19th claim that Early had repelled the Federal infantry, ibfEcting upon them severe lose, and was abont following up his advantage, when a force of at least six thousand cavalry charged upon and succeeded in turning his right flank, and that the Confederates then retreated in good order to Fisher's hill, bringing off all their trains in safety . The -Richmond Examiner states that in this battle the Confederates captured seven hundred prisoners, and that their entire losses did not exceed twenty five hundred. The Federal lo3ses, according to this authority, were between six and eight thousand. Tee Richmond papers pronounce the Federal ac ennts absurdly false. No Confederate accounts of the subsequent battle and defeat of Early, at Fisher's Hill, have been received. Brickenridge is reported to have left Early's army and gone to command in the southwest. Sept. 27 (Evening). Money easy. Gold declined yesterday under a panic to 183, bat rallied this afternoon to 1961. In consequence of large speculative sales stocks de clined, but recovered this afternoon to the following quotations :—New York Centrals, 116 i ; Illinois, 119 a; Erie, 941 ; United States 5 dols. 20c. Bonds, 1081. Sept. 29 (Evening). Money easy. Violent fluctuations of gold have taken place since Monday—between 183 and 204 in consequence of unfavourable rumours. The final quotatio❑ this afternoon was 1961. large specula% rive sales have taken place in stocks. New York Centrals, 117; Illinois, 119; Erie, 96a; United States 5 dols. 203. Bonds, 1097,-. Cotton dull. Middling Upland, 125. Flour and wheat heavy. Curn dull. Provisions tending downwards. C.sffee inactive. Sugar steady. Molasses heavy. Petro• leum, crude, 39; rained, 65 to 671. Oat. 1 (Afternoon). Gold, 901 per cc nt. preminir. Stocks depressed. New York Centrals, 1131 ; 116 ; Erie, 90L ; United States %5 dots. 20e. Bonds, 1071. Cotton dull: Middling Upland, 120 to 125. BreadstuiL heavy. Petroleum, crude, 39; refined, 63. THE TRIAL OF MULLEP.,--In reply to a COMMU. nicatian from the Solicitor to the Treasury, the soli citor engaged in conducting Muller's defence has intimated that the prisoner will be quite ready to take his trial at the October Sessions of the Central Criminal Court, which will open on the 24th inst. ; and, in accordance with that an nouncement, it is fully believed that the trial will take place at the ensuing sessions. The counsel for the prosecution on behalf of the Crown are—the Solicitor-General, Mr Giffard, and Mr Beasley; S2rgeant Parry being specially retained, with Mr Metcalfe and Mr Maley, for the defence. Muller, as a foreigner, it is understooJ, will avail himself of his privilege of being trial by a jury composed of halt English men and half foreigners. Mr. Gladstone's Visit to Bolton and Fat north. Great preparations are being made, both at Bolton and Farnworth, to give a cordial greeting to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who will visit Bolton tomorrow afternoon, and on the day following will open the public park at Farnworth. The right hon. gentleman will arrive at the Trinity street Station, Bolton, at 4.38, where he will be met by the Mayor and Town Clerk, Mr Barnes, M.P., Cjionel Gray, M.P., and Mr Alfred Barnes, chairman of the Fare worth Local Board. These gentlemen will cecort Mr Gladstone to the Free Public Library, where he will be met by MrCannon and other members of the Library and Mu.seurn Committee. They will then proceed to the Market Hall, and thence to the Temperance Hall, where the Mayor will present to Mr Gladstone the following address from the Cor poration : To the Right Hon. William E wart Gladstone, M.P, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir,—We, the Mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Bolton, in the county of Lancaster. desire to express the deep gratification which your visit to this town affords to all classes of its inhabitants, and the great regret felt on their part that your stay amongst them is unavoid ably for so short a period. In common with many of our fellow-countrymen of all shades of political opinion, we admire you as a statesman possessing rare and distin guished abilities, and as a Minister occupying in the Go vernment of this country a high position, and adorning that Government with such gifts of oratory and financial ability, combined with great scholarship, as have rarely been equalled; and we are glad that the town of Bolton has the honour of being publicly visited by so illustrious a man. The opening of the park at Farnworth, which is the occasion affording us the privilege of your pre sence, has our warmest sympathy, and it gives us much pleasure to add that, through the liberal provision of that Government whose finances you so ably control, this borough is undertaking the formation of a park for the free use of its inhabitants ; and we doubt not that the present and future generations of our town, whilst enjoying the benefits thus conferred upon them, will regard with grati tude the Parliament which, at your instigation, has furnished the mean: of such healthful recreation, In conclusion, wo rejoice in giving you a hearty welcome upon this your first public visit to Bolton, and venture to express the hopo that the time is not far distant when we shall be favoured with a longer stay than that which you are now enabled to make amongst us—Given under the common seal of the borough of Bolton, at a meeting of the Council of the said borough, held on the sth day of October, 1834. Atter leaving the Temperance Hall, the party will proceed down Bradshawgate (to efford Mr. Glad stone an opportunity of inspecting the Crompton statue), and from thence to the residence of Ali. Alfred Barnes, G:cen Bank, Farnworth. Oa Wed nesday morning a procession will form at half-past nine o'clock, at the offices of the Local Board, in Derby-street, Farnworth, and will pass through the principal streets to the park. The ceremony will commence by the Sunday scholars singing the 100th Psalm, and after a preyer by the Bishop of Manchester, and addresses by Sir J. P. Kay- Shuttleworth and the Rev. G. D. Macgregor, Mr. Barnes will present the park to the inhabitants for their use for ever. Mr. Alfred Barnes, as chairman of the Local Board, will accept the same, and Mr Gladstone will declare it open. In addition to the gentlemen before named, the Earl of Ellesmere, the Hon. A. Egerton, M.P., Mr Massey, M.P., Mr Baxley, Col. Gray, M.P., Mr J. Piikington, M.P., and Mr Hibbert, M.P. have promised to attend. At one o'clock a luncheon will be served in a marquee. At three o'clock Mr Goddard will ascend in his Lalloon, at six o'clock there will be a display of fireworks, and at half-past seven there will be a miscella neous entertainment in the New Hall, by the Congregational Young Men's Mutual Improvement Society. Great preparations are making, both in Bolton and Farnwortb, for the decorations of the streets, and the day will be observed in the neigh bourhood as a general holiday. The Collision on the Great Northern Railway. On Saturday it was announced that a Midland train from King's-cross had run into a Great Northern train rv, Welwyn junction on Friday evening. Further details have now been received, and it would appear that at the time of the collision a train of trucks from Lincolnshire, filled with potatoes and other agricultural produce, was entering the Welwyn station from the north, the engine being under the charge of an old and experienced driver, named Jessop, and at the time there were several fast trains, both of the Mid land and the Great Northern due, including the Midland down express. Whether from some misunderstanding on the part of the pointsman or the engine -driver of the up train could not be ascertained, but the agrieultural produce train crossed the line, and, instead of going into a left-hand siding, crossed the line to the siding on the right-hand side of the station. At the time the agricultural train was cross ing the line to this siding, the down express, which was known to be due, appeared in sight, and before the driver of the engine of the goods train had time enough to remedy the mistake, either by going forward or retreating, the express train dashed in amongst the trucks, smashing them to pieces, and scattering the potatoes and other produce in all directions on the line and down the embankment. The express train was fortunately a very light one, having only seven carriage • attached to the engine and tender, and not a very large number of passengers, the majority of whom were in the afterpart of the train. The shock was tremendous ; but it is perhaps attributable to the velocity of the express at the moment that a serious loss of life did not take place. The engine of ill., agricultural train, having crossed the line and got on the siding, was not injured, the express engine hav ing struck this train near its centre, but the engine of the express train was much shattered and thrown off the metals ; and although three or four of the trucks in the agricultural train were smashed, and several of the fore most carriages of the express train also, it is a singular cir cumstance that the engine -driver and fireman of tt o ex press engine, which it might be expected, would have been annihilated, escaped with but slight injuries. The conster nation of the passengers is described as fearful, and so great was the fright of many that they rushed out of the train so soon as it was brought to a stand, and being unacquainted with the locality, and there being but a very slight amount of tight from the rising moon, several would have jumped over the parapet of the viaduct and been killed, had they not been restrained by others who were acquainted with the character of the neighbourhood of the occurrence. As soon as the first alarm of the shock had subsided the station master at Welwyn telegraphed what had happened to Hat field, iu the direction of London, and to Ilitchin downward, to stop all trains either way, also at the same time tele graphed the news to King's-cress that the accident had happened and the line was blocked. On receipt of this news Mr I'. Williams, police superintendent, and subse• quently Mr Leith, general superintendent, and Mr Burge, of the locomotive department, proceeded to Welwyn with a large number of labourers, accompanied by Mr Kirkwood, of the Euston-road, surgeon to the company, In the mean time Mr Dredge, of Welwyn, and other medical gentlemen from the surrounding districts, were in attendance on the sufferers, whose injuries, it is stated, wero chiefly confined to superficial cuts about the faces and hands in some 12 or or 14 instances, and who with the exception of one gentle man, said to have had his ribs broken, were unable to pro ceed on their journey either on Friday night or Saturday morning. This gentleman still remains at the White Hart Hotel, Welwyn, to which house he was removed, but is stated to be progressing favourably. The escape of the pas sengers, when the fearful nature of the collision is consi dered, is truly miraculous, as, in addition to an empty horse box next to the tender, which was almost demolished, the whole of the foot boards, door handles, the panels of the carriages were smashed, and the panels splintered and drove on the right hand or off side of the train. An investigation has been made into the cause of tho ac• cident, and it has been discovered that the points were put right to have shunted the agricultural train on to the left instead of the right hand siding, and it is believed that they must have by Borne means shifted, and that the driver of the engine of that train had not time to discover the error and reverse his engine so as to get clear of the main line be. fore the express came.upen them. GENERAL GARIBALDI AND LORD PALMERSTON.— When General Garibaldi came over to this country, he came -30, at least, his friends say—with a curious mis sionary project in his head. Ho wanted and hoped to con vert Lord Palmerston to the cause of European nationalities. In his interview with the English Premier, it is said that he eagerly pointed out what a glory it would be to England to come forward as liberator of Rome and Venice. The story goes on to say that he received the same answer from Lord Palmerston which Victor Emmanuel is always re ceiving from the Pope. Lord Palmerston admitted the weight of all that the General had to say, but closed the conversation with a non possumus. 'Jo expect so enthusi, astic a programme from the aged Premier was not merely to adc England to enter on a new and active foreign policy for which she m!ght be unfitted, but to ask a very old u.an to unfurl the oriflunme. MR. BANIM, one of the authors of the "Talcs of the O'Hara Family," is preparing a new edition of this series of Irish tales, with new prefaces and copLus notes. It is pretty well understood that many of these tales were founded on fact, and that the characters in them were living men. Thug Father Connell is said to have been described from Father O'Dmnell, the !lonian Catholic Dean of Os sory. The new edition is to contain a good deal of gossip on the real persons of thetie Irish stories, HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, OCT 7. The Q teen, accompanied by Princess 'fele" and Prince Arthur, and attended by the lien ' Emma Lsscelles, drove to Loch Callater yesterdal. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston ha ve arrived at Cambridge House from BroEdlandm. Despatches were rec( ived at the Colonial office Be Saturday from the Governors of Gibraltar Br d Ceylon. asp:itches were sent to the Governors of the Falkland Islands and Canada. THE LATE MR JOHN 'MACDONALD —We learn that on hearing, on Saturday last, of the al .rming itin eeE4 of Mr John Macdonald, who, from the regularity of 1 ' 1,5 autumnal visits to the respected minister of Crathie, wag doubtless well known by personal appearance to the Que en ' her M ,jesty immediately requested her physician, Dr Je Tl ' nor, to wait upon him; and the same evening, having he ard of his death, the Queen sent a message to the manse to es' press how deeply struck and grieved she was to hear of the sudden and unlooked for event. The private telegraph °f her Majesty to Balmoral was at on c e off ere d as a means , conveying tidings to Mr Macdonald's friends in Ed il3 ' burgh, and was used several times in the course of the dal On Tuesday morning her Majesty sent to the manse to 1 6. quire whether any of the relatives of the deceased gentle' man had arrived, and manifested great anxiety to lear n whether any service could be rendered in paying the last duties to his remains. This case adds another to the raa l3 . 7 proofs we have had how tenderly her Me-jesty sympatb ia l with r.flietion in all its forms, and how kindly an intone" she takes in all familiar faces, We may add that the re m-ins of Mr Macdonald were conveyed from the manse to the railway station at Aboyn on Wednesday morning by 6 small company of relatives and other mourners, and wer e thence taken south by railway to Edinburgh. On Friday ;hey were interred in the Dean Cemetery,—Edinbu r il h Courant. DEATH CF MR. WILLIAM TYLER.—This gentle' man, for many years proprietor of the vast esta' blishment known as the Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens, died on Sunday last, after a short illness, at his residence: Cringleford, near Norwie. Mr Tyler became proprietor of the gardens in 1E44, having previously been secretary to Mr Cross, the original founder of th em , an d he continu e ': the proprietorship till 1338, when the pruperty was yes" in a liwi ed liability company. The grand music hall W as afterwards used as a chapel by Mr Spurgeon, and is n evi doing duty as the temporary site of St Thomas's Ilospital. GUNPOWDER STORLS.—The Home-office has- 1114 stituted inquiries as to the quantity of gunpowder in o)ra in the several localities where it is kept to any large araeuu t. It is remarkable that there is a provision respecting th e quantity kept where the manufacture is conducted. There is also a limitation of the amount kept on hand by th e , licensed retailers of the article. There are also string ent regulations for the protection of the Government stores 1 1 sea and land. But it is in the large warehouses of t he manufacturers and wholesale dealers that the greatest quantities are to be found, and it is to these that the new legislation on the subject will be specially directed."'d Observer. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—The Lord C 1 31 1: cellor and the commissioners who will be appointee' by Her Majesty assemble in the House of Lords on Thurs.' day next, the 13th instant, for the purpose of proroguing the Imperial Parliament until Friday, the 11th Novemb er : There seems to be misapprehension in the pubic mind, a l3 " erroneous statements have appeared is several newspaPe r :" in reference to the duration of the present Parliament. " was " begun and holden on the 21st of May, 1359,'' and wil l not legally expire until the close of next year. The last was the "sixth" Session, and as Parliament is septexmli'lP 'r seven" cannot be holden. According to the usual prao tice the dissolution will take place next spring, and th e new Parliament assemble in November following fo r short time, and then adjourn to February or March for the transaction of general business. SUICIDE FROM WESTMINSTER B . RIDGEOiI 5.14 turday morning, rhortly before 10 o'clock, a man, apparently 50 years of age, leaped over the parapet of the centre arc h i of Weetminster-bridge, the bridge being at the time cro wded with foot passengers and vehicles. On the alarm being raised, Henry Phelps, pierman at the Surrey side of th e bridge, put off in his boat, and succeeded in coming up w ith the unfortunate man before he had sunk the second tinter and brought him ashore alive, but senseless. He was taken to Westminster Hospital, where, despite the efforts of the surgeons of the institution, be expired in about 20 minteess DEATH FROM AN OVERDOSE OF LAUDANUM.—° 4 Saturday an inquest was held by Mr Richards, at the Athol and Eve Tavern, Hoxton, on Sarah Ann Reynolds, age d 49, who died from the effects of laudanum. The deceased, who was a sempstress, bad been suffering a long time fr om nervousness and ticdoloreux. On Tuesday last decease d told one of the lodgers that she would have no rest until sh e took some laudanum. A female named Mears called to see the deceased on 'Wednesday morning, but could not mak e , her hear. The door was forcibly opened, when the dec eased was was discovered dead, lying with her head on the bed and her legs upon a chair, with a bottle by her side. Mr klickgr. surgeon, who made a post mortem examination, stated ars; he found the lungs and brain congested, which had ball caused through an overdose of laudanum. The deceased had been in the habit of taking large quantities of l a uclaoil ui. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased died from the mortal effects of laudanum, taken to alleviate pain. AMERICAN BLOCKADE.—HaIifax, Sept. 22---TD e blockade runners the Lady Sterling and the Armstrong cleared for Bermuda yesterday. The Little Hattie, whichsailed a few days since, returned to-day. Havanneh, Cep:. 17—The Denbigh arrived on the 15th from Galveston , the Susanna, on the 12th, five days from Houston. 1.11 : latter started with 325 bales of cotton, but reached this P °l. , with only 73, having thrown the balance overboard to fuel' litate her escape from a Federal cruiser off Cape s ' ll Antonio. The Federal steamer Honeysuckle reports aloe capture of the Matagorda (formerly the Alice), with 6° bales of cotton, and the arrival of the prize at Key IVe st " The Matagorda was from Galveston for this port. BEAU NASIL—His laws were suited to his tim e, and this is the test of a good legislator, He W 6° obeyed, both in these and other particulars; nor did he admit the claims of rank or fortune to an exemption from his ordinances. The bells were to begin at six and close ah, eleven. He would not suffir them to continue a memo" longer, on account cf the invalids, and for the sake of the reputation of the waters, Not even for the Royal Wu" would ho deviate from any of his rules. The Princeo Amelia once applying to him for one dance more after ll° had given the signal to withdraw, he assured her roe o highness that the established rules of Bath resemble d the laws of Lycurgus, which would admit of no alteration wit l l out an entire subversion of all his authority. He now sit himself to correct the ball attire of his rude subjects. appears that the ladies offended by coming in white 81 001 ' 6 and the gentlemen by appearing in riding boots. SJ compromising was his aversion to the former, that he OD' divested a duchess of her apron at a ball and threw it among the waiting women, saying none but Abigails appeare d ,, e white aprons. The dechess acquiesced and begged his jesty's pardon. Whenever any gentleman, through ig l3° ranee or haste, appeared in boots, Nash would make up ~ him, and, bowing in an arch manner, would tell him that ho had forgot his horse, But a more serious undertakl was to induce gentlemen to leave their awards ball° them. These inconvenient appendages were eornetinan6 alarming, for they were apt to get unsheathed on very l i g ht; provocation, and sometimes with fatal effects. A duel took: place in the Grove by torchlight between two gamesters, tlao tragical consequences of which had the effect of aiding th e ' policy of Mr Nash. Ho at length carried his prohibitie a in o effect, and they ceased to be worn at Bath, to the great relief of the ladies resorting thither. And if he heard of 6 challenge given and accepted, ho instantly had both parties arrested.''—Eagle' s Guide to Bath. FATAL LEAP OVER EDINBURGH CASTLE 110G 5 ' —On Friday morning, about 5 o'clock, a private j ll the 74th Highlanders, named Robert Wilson, expired 111 the Castle Hospital from injuries he sustained by htl ii°s atcr throwing himself from the Argyll battery of the on Thursday morning. He was discovered lying et foot of the Castle rock, near the railway, about r/). o'clock on Thursday morning, and he was rernove to the garrhon hospital. \V ilson was a man of all 35 years of age, and had been 18 years in the regilverl; He bore a good character generally, but was occasionafu_ addicted to over-indulgence in strong drink, and his stray! behaviour on some occasions gave his comrades the in3Pre6 sion that his brain had become affected during his set/'co with the regiment in India. It is said that on Wednesd3l„ii night he had been drinking, and it is conjectured that .1 4; had thrown himself over the parapet of the battery o bi ' suffering from delirium tremens.--Scotsman. COOKING 'WITHOUT FIRE.—The ingenious I‘l. Babinet, of the F r en c h I ns tit u t e , has discoveied t b° means of cooking without fire. He has just laid be fore the academy the re s ult of his experiments. His rec i p e is. ; Place your food in a black pot, coverel with sundry p ane d of glass, and stand it in the sun, The water soon boil' , 3 „ u o the food is s a id t o he o f better flavour than if cooked iv' ordinary way. Bat we aro in a season when, in JA ndo tc , at least, it will hardly do to trust to the sun as a substifu . for a kitchen fire, and the probability is that this neW vention will be about as useful as that attempte d in ', land where the inhabitants occupied themselves in nAdc''it ouring to extract sunhe .ms from cucumbers. OA SERIOUS ACCIDENT FROM GUNPOWDER.--- t Soturday, Frances Turner, 12 years of ago, residing a , O Brook-green, Hammersmith, was playing with her lathe cr powder horn, when the powder exploded, shattering right hand in a dreadful manner, and otherwise Serie')." injuring her, 1111111 ° IMbir TEE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1864. asi.